Techniques will help retirees feel comfortable using computers

How can retirees who have very few computer skills successfully access digital information systems? According to Dutch researcher Henk Herman Nap, the design of an access system should be coordinated with large keys and letters, native language, and a touch screen and ABCD keyboard.

In addition, positive feedback is also important to reduce the stress experienced by retirees using computers.

How can retirees who have very few computer skills successfully access digital information systems?(Photo: iStockphoto / Luca di Filippo)

All people of all ages are using the Internet more and more, but in terms of skills, retirees are far behind younger generations. So the design of an access system needs to consider the skills and abilities of retirees.

However, if retirees work with digital information systems in a successful and comfortable way, they also suffer a little stress. Nap analyzed whether the complexity of a system and the expected expression of retirees affected acute stress.

Research shows that the stress level of experience will increase if retirees receive negative feedback, and will decrease if they receive positive feedback. However, the complexity of the system does not affect the stress experienced even though it affects retirement expectations of their future performance manifest as well as effectiveness and efficiency. effective with which tasks are expressed.